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A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray.

A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray.

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Faith, Sublime, Cherish
Havelock Ellis (1930). “Fountain of Life”

We cannot remain consistent with the world save by growing inconsistent with our past selves.

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Change, Past, Self
havelock ellis (1923). “the dance of life”

The great writer finds style as the mystic finds God, in his own soul.

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Soul, Style, Mystic
havelock ellis (1923). “the dance of life”

Man lives by imagination.

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Men, Imagination, Live By

A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.

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Inspirational, Men, Belief
havelock ellis (1923). “the dance of life”

It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must first improve our knowledge.

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Wish, Firsts, Becoming
Havelock Ellis (2013). “On Life and Sex: Essays of Love & Virtue”, p.25, Elsevier

There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself.

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Wise, Country, Time
Arthur William Allen, Carl Schurz, Joseph Hodges Choate, Noel Noel-Buxton Baron Noel-Buxton, Philip Snowden Snowden (Viscount) (1913). “President Wilson on the United States and Latin America: Address Before the Southern Commercial Congress at Mobile, Alabama, October 27, 1913”

Every ist writes his own autobiography.

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Art, Writing, Autobiography

The mother is really a more immediate parent than the father because one is born from the mother, and the first experience of any infant is the mother.

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Mother, Father, Parent
Source: articles.latimes.com

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